Shell Programming and Scripting

Hi All,

I have a huge matrix file consisting some some millions rows and 6000 columns. The contents are just floating point numbers in the matrix. I want to extract each column (i.e. 6000 of them) and store each column in a separate file.
For example, 1.dat will consist of elements from column 1. 2.dat will have the numbers from the 2nd column and so on. I have tried this but it does not work:

Code:

awk '{print $c}{c++}{print > c."dat"}' tdm.mtx

I am using Linux.

What is the field separator of your file?

Sorry, totally forgot...separated by spaces...the matrix is something like this

Code:

1 2 3
4 .005 6
6 7 .08

try this

Code:

#/bin/ksh 
set -A row `head -1 file.txt`
num_col=`echo ${#row[*]}`
i=1
while (( i <= ${num_col} ))
do
 cut -d ' ' -f${i} file.txt  > ${i}.dat
(( i += 1 ))
done

Here is an awk :

Code:

awk '{ for (i=1;i <= NF;i++) print $i > i".dat" }' file.txt